/bin/sh gone

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eronde · Post by **eronde** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:14 pm

Hello,

I've made a little mistake, I've delete /bin/sh.

How can I get bash on my system without a bash shell.

Greetz

steveb · Post by **steveb** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:21 pm

Did you deleted just /bin/sh (the symlink) or did you deleted /bin/bash. If you just removed the symlink then execute:

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cd /bin
ln -sf bash sh

// SteveB

eronde · Post by **eronde** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:24 pm

sorry, I'e also deleted /bin/bash.

Majlo · Post by **Majlo** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:11 pm

Hi

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mario@server ~ $ equery belongs /bin/bash
[ Searching for file(s) /bin/bash in *... ]
app-shells/bash-3.2_p17 (/bin/bash)

So

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emerge -1av app-shells/bash

should be enough

Regards,
Mario

Rob1n · Post by **Rob1n** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:29 pm

You'll probably need to do a binary install - I suspect the compilation will fail without a valid /bin/sh. You could also just copy the missing files from an install CD or stage3 tarball.

omp · Post by **omp** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:09 pm

Rob1n wrote:You could also just copy the missing files from an install CD or stage3 tarball.

Even easier would be to just download a binary of bash.

Assuming you are on x86, use the following URL. Otherwise, poke around the tinderbox to find your arch.

http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default ... 2_p17.tbz2

eronde · Post by **eronde** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:51 am

Thanks for the info.

I've downloaded but when I extract the file I get the following error.

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bzip2: (stdin): trailing garbage after EOF ignored

I've tried to extract it to /Tmp, it works. Only the files bash and rbash would not extract.

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:59 am

eronde,

Thats OK.
The tinderbox packages are binaries of the packages made with emerge. After the code you need are some details of how it was produced. It would have installed with no problem had you used emerge -K but I think that needs bash.

I should work now.

eronde · Post by **eronde** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:10 pm

Thanks guys,

Problem fixed.

Eronde